Moscow’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov hopes to meet representatives of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Qatar next week for talks to free Israeli hostages, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday. Moscow has so far carefully denounced violence from both sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, while renewing an offer to…
What did our ancestors eat for a quick snack? They’d grab a little pie or a kalach. The whole point of a kalach — bread with a handle — is to eat it “on the go.” You could grab the handle with dirty hands, eat the bread, and then just throw away the dirty handle.…
Russian President Vladimir Putin heads to China next week to meet his “dear friend” Xi Jinping, forging even closer ties in a key strategic relationship in which experts say Moscow is increasingly the junior partner. Beijing is hosting representatives of 130 countries on Oct. 17-18 to mark a decade of its Belt and Road Initiative…